Species Competition for 2024

+1 Japanese Persimmon

 

That's some pretty wood. I bet SBK1980 would like that piece with the curly grain.

 

Add honey locust to my tally.

 

Pretty sure this is crabapple

 

That pink under the bark looks like the one I got a short time back, the one I was calling watermelon because of the color and smell.

 

I knew it was apple of some sort and the "apples" I found confirmed it was crabapple.

 

+1 Awesome barkless White Pine

 

Bet it smelled great! Any sap on your saw? I've cut spruce and got covered in it!

 

It’s been in my yard for months, so sap wasn’t bad. Long enough for bugs to separate the bark.
Sticky bits on my arms and neck didn’t feel great at 90deg. First time splitting EWP and it’s by far the lightest pine I’ve encountered. Lighter than Poplar. I cut the pieces between the whorls, so they are nice straight splits.

 

EWP dries to feather light. Should be good for the Fall. The limb wood can have lots of lignin

 

I almost grabbed a chunk of gnarly EWP for the count at the dump the other day. Needed truck empty so I didn't.

 

Looks good to me, but I keep processing and burning more and more of it.

 

Storm damage pine from my backyard. Pretty sure it’s ponderosa.

 

I can add a couple new species to my list:

Blue Spruce
American Elm

Won't move me up much, but I'll take what I can get!

 

1. 28 - Chud
2. 24 - Eric Wanderweg
3. 18 - buZZsaw BRAD
   
4. 18 - jrider
5. 15 - isaaccarlson
6. 12 - JPDavis
7. 11 - LCBug
8. 9 - Buttermilk
9. 8 - 828woodministry
10. 8 - High Plains Hoarder
    
11. 7 - Dok440
12. 6 - 203coffeeman
13. 6 - Sandhillbilly
14. 4 - iowahiker
15. 3 - T.Jeff Veal
16. 1 - billb3
17. 1 - wildwest

Updated Leaderboard. Let me know if I've missed anyting.

 

Agreed

 

White oak
Red oak
Black locust
Ash
Poplar
Osage
and Cedar thus far in 24

 

Doing a little puttering in 100* temps and trying to get the processing area tidied up a bit. Silver maple

8 rounds of honey locust

And some spruce. I think it’s Colorado blue spruce because as far as I know that’s the only spruce around here and they don’t grow in the wild, just yard trees.

 

Bradford pear (sapsuckers seem to love fruit trees judging from all the little holes) Mimosa. Its not quartered per your rules 828woodministry so let me know if this counts.